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MEDIA COVERAGE Milling firm packs more market clout BY AIMEE PEDLER An updated automated packing machine will open more marketing doors for Bordertown-based cereal manufacturers Blue Lake Milling. Specialising in oat milling, the company already produces 40,000 tonnes of grain product each year, and hopes the packing facility will create even more opportunities for its domestic and overseas markets. Blue Lake Milling manufactures cereal-based food and ingredients, including packaging and distributing an extensive range of niche cereal flakes, bran, flours and premixes. A Federal Government grant of $130,000 under the ‘Funding In Regional Australia’ program will help install the packing equipment to cater for different types and quantities of material. It specialises in the industrial market, including private-label oats and cereals and ingredients The company produces products from oats, barley, rye, organic, wheat, rice and triticale. Its biggest export demands come from New Zealand, Indonesia, Taiwan and India, with new opportunities opening up in China. Marketing manager Lindy Cook says the equipment will help build domestic and export markets. “It will allow us to be more efficient, and give us different options in regards to retail products,” she said. Blue Lake Milling was founded at Mount Gambier, and moved its operations to Bordertown in the 1970s. Its second site at Dimboola in Victoria has been operating since April this year, and allows speciality products and more of its general products to be manufactured. It boasts 64 staff between the two sites, with an opportunity for more positions to open if the company remains competitive The packing machine is in the process of being installed and will be commissioned as soon as possible. |
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